Liverpool Lime Street Station – 23rd May 2025
I took these pictures as I passed through Liverpool Lime Street station on Friday.
Note.
- The neo-classical building opposite the station is St. George’s Hall, which is Grade I Listed.
- Nikolaus Pevsner expressed his opinion that St. George’s Hall is one of the finest neo-Grecian buildings in the world.
- Lime Street station is Grade II Listed.
- The building with the two towers on the front of the station is the four-star Radisson RED Liverpool hotel.
- The statue in the last picture is of Ken Dodd and Bessie Braddock.
The large plaza between Liverpool Lime Street station and St. George’s Hall gives a big welcome to visitors to Liverpool.
I’ve Listened To The Tape
I went to Liverpool University in the Autumn of 1964.
The University in those days had a Rag \Week, which in Liverpool was called Panto Week.
This link to the University of Liverpool web site, gives a flavour.
There used to be a debate in the Mountford Hall of the Guild of Undergraduates and usually someone locally famous was invited. In 1965, it was The Scaffold.
I don’t know how I got there, but a few days after seeing the Scaffold, I ended up in a Hall of Residence listening to a tape of the debate of the previous year.
It was a virtuoso performance by Ken Dodd and it went on for hours.
I wonder, if that tape still exists!
The Anonymous Widower 